albatross »
Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
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go south »
To become unfavorable; to decrease; to take a turn for the worse.
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good old boy »
A friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated, sometimes racially biased white man who embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the rural southern USA.
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head south »
Alternative form of go south; to decrease or become unfavorable; to take a turn for the worse.
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lay open »
In Japan and South Korea, to publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration.
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shotgun »
A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line. Mostly heard in the southern United States.
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touch of the tar brush »
Of South Asian or Afro-Caribbean in their background and/or in their appearance.
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well ain't that the catfish in the trap »
A sentence commonly spoken in the Southern United States. It can often be used in place of "well, I'll be damned". Used to express surprise.
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wits' end »
A. 1911, John Muir, in John Muir and Michael P. Branch, John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa, 2002, page 138.
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